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How Long Until the Poop Hits the Fan?
Recently I’ve been receiving more emails from subscribers. A question that’s coming up more often is, “How long until the poop hits the fan?” For example, one reader asks: Good Morning Joe, I was...
View ArticleThe Value of Survival Fiction
I recently read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen aloud to my daughter. The story is about a 13-year-old boy named Brian who crashes in the Canadian wilderness and must figure out how to survive in the wild. Of...
View ArticleWhen the SHTF, Should You Stay Put or Leave?
Today, a question from a reader: “Thank you for your articles and website. They have been real helpful to my family and I. My husband and I have just started stocking up on supplies because of what is...
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The Water Filter that Fits in Your Pocket or Purse
Getting clean water is going to be a high priority in any sort of short-term or long-term crisis. The tricky thing about water is it’s heavy and difficult to transport. You can store up a supply of...
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Paracord Belt: A Practical Survival Item
Bill Watson from Ridgerunner Belts contacted me about a month ago. He wanted to know if I’d be interested in a free paracord belt to review here on my blog. After looking at his product photos, I told...
View ArticleBeware of “Dirty” Power
Hurricane Sandy really did a number on the East Coast. I’ve been reading firsthand reports as I find them or as they are sent to me. Bob Bly sent me one that I thought was especially interesting. He...
View ArticleCan You Really Live Off Beans in a Survival Situation?
A classic survival item preppers like to stockpile are legumes (especially beans). Inexpensive, nourishing, and easy to store. But are beans easy to cook? How about easy to digest? “I’d rather be shot...
View ArticlePaying Off Debt as a Survival Strategy
We live in perhaps the most financially complicated age in history. Never before have people needed to be educated about so many different financial topics just to stay afloat. There are all types of...
View ArticleSurviving in Woodland Terrain
A guest post from Michael Vosen: It’s pretty much a given that in most disaster situations the city will be the most dangerous place to be. Because of this many preppers talk about how, in a survival...
View ArticlePreparedness Tips for Apartment Dwellers
Bernie Carr is known as “the Apartment Prepper.” She is also the author of The Prepper’s Pocket Guide: 101 Easy Things You Can Do to Ready Your Home for a Disaster. There are millions of people who...
View ArticleListen While Dr. Prepper Interviews Survival Joe on the Preparedness Radio...
James Talmage Stevens — possibly better known as Dr. Prepper — recently contacted me about appearing on his radio show. Dr. Prepper is the author of the perennial bestseller Making the Best of Basics...
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21 Common Prepper Acronyms You Should Know
If you already consider yourself a prepper and have been taking steps to get prepared for a few months (or years), then you may already be familiar with all the prepper jargon and acronyms. But if...
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New to Prepping? Get These 3 Items First…
I was recently asked, “What are the 3 most important items for a new prepper to get started with?” This is a difficult question to answer without knowing any details about the person to whom I’m giving...
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Think Twice Before Putting Your Faith in FEMA
Last September, the Denver metro area was hammered with record amounts of rainfall that led to some of the worst flooding the state had ever seen. Recovery and rebuilding efforts are ongoing. It is...
View ArticleHow to Open Canned Food without a Can Opener
The only feeling worse than running out of ammo while staring down a crazed mob trying to break into your home… would be having enough canned food to feed an army — but still staring down starvation...
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3 Poisons Hiding in Your Tap Water
The water that comes out of your faucets may actually contain hidden poisons. First of all, you’ve got chlorine and fluoride, both of which are added to our drinking water by local governments. Both...
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The Great Depression Revisited: “Obamavilles” Rise Up in America
During the Great Depression, shanty towns and tent cities sprouted up across America. Scenes of these impoverished cities were depicted in books like John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Since Herbert...
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3 Survival Lessons I Learned from My Failed Attempts to Climb Mount Harvard
Here in Colorado we have a range of mountains called the Collegiate Peaks. This is because a few of the peaks in the range are named after famous universities. I’ve climbed Princeton, Columbia, Oxford,...
View ArticleHow to Open a Bottle of Wine without a Corkscrew (VIDEO)
The world as you know it has ended. Now you need a drink. Fortunately, you stockpiled dozens of bottles of your favorite wines before the apocalypse. But unfortunately, your corkscrew has broken. Now...
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How to Choose an EDC Knife – 5 Things to Consider
Here is a guest post from Ryan at KnivesAndSurvival.com. Enjoy! -Survival Joe It’s midnight and you hear footsteps close by. The streetlights went out long ago, so you rely only on the glow of the...
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